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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

COOKING WITH CLORIS -- NATIONAL BAKE WEEK

Did you know that this is National Bake Week? Cloris is celebrating with some yummy cupcakes that you might want to serve for Easter. -- AP

LEMON RASPBERRY CUPCAKES
(makes 12)

Ingredients:

1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 stick unsalted butter, softened

2/3 cup sugar

2 eggs

3/4 cup milk

1 teaspoon lemon extract

3/4 cup fresh raspberries

1-1/3 cups whipping cream

2 tablespoons sugar

1 teaspoon raspberry syrup

Dust raspberries with small amount of flour and set aside.

Combine remaining flour, baking powder and salt in medium bowl. In large bowl beat butter and sugar for 2 minutes. Beat in eggs one at a time. Turn mixer to low and add half the flour mixture, then the milk and lemon extract, then the remainder of the flour mixture. Fold in the raspberries.

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Read about Anastasia in the Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery seriesby Lois Winston. Assault With a Deadly Glue Gun, the first book in the series, received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist. Kirkus Reviews called it "North Jersey's more mature answer to Stephanie Plum." Assault With a Deadly Glue Gunwas also a Book of the Year Award nominee from ForeWord Reviews, a Daphne du Maurier Award finalist, and a Readers Choice Award nominee from the Salt Lake City Library System. Other books in the series include Death by Killer Mop Doll, Revenge of the Crafty Corpse, Decoupage Can Be Deadly, and the ebook only mini-mysteries Crewel Intentions and Mosaic Mayhem. Look for more of Anastasia's adventures coming in the future.

About Me

I'm the crafts editor at American Woman magazine; the single parent of two teenage boys and a Shakespeare quoting parrot; caretaker to a semi-invalid, communist mother-in-law from Hell and her demon dog; daughter to a multi-married descendant of the Czars (supposedly); reluctant cat-sitter to Mama's extremely corpulent white Persian cat; a born Jersey girl; and star of my own amateur sleuth mystery series.